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# URLDecoder

`public class URLDecoder`
`extends Object` ``

java.lang.Object
↳ | java.net.URLDecoder

Utility class for HTML form decoding. This class contains static methods for decoding a String from the `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` MIME format.

The conversion process is the reverse of that used by the URLEncoder class. It is assumed that all characters in the encoded string are one of the following: "`a`" through "`z`", "`A`" through "`Z`", "`0`" through "`9`", and "`-`", "`_`", "`.`", and "`*`". The character "`%`" is allowed but is interpreted as the start of a special escaped sequence.

The following rules are applied in the conversion:

- The alphanumeric characters "`a`" through "`z`", "`A`" through "`Z`" and "`0`" through "`9`" remain the same.
- The special characters "`.`", "`-`", "`*`", and "`_`" remain the same.
- The plus sign "`+`" is converted into a space character " " .
- A sequence of the form "`%xy`" will be treated as representing a byte where xy is the two-digit hexadecimal representation of the 8 bits. Then, all substrings that contain one or more of these byte sequences consecutively will be replaced by the character(s) whose encoding would result in those consecutive bytes. The encoding scheme used to decode these characters may be specified, or if unspecified, the default encoding of the platform will be used.

There are two possible ways in which this decoder could deal with illegal strings. It could either leave illegal characters alone or it could throw an `IllegalArgumentException`. Which approach the decoder takes is left to the implementation.

## Summary

### Public constructors
`URLDecoder()`

### Public methods
`static String` | `decode(String s)` This method is deprecated. The resulting string may vary depending on the platform's default encoding. Instead, use the decode(String,String) method to specify the encoding.
`static String` | `decode(String s, String enc)` Decodes a `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` string using a specific encoding scheme.

### Inherited methods
From class `java.lang.Object`
`Object` | `clone()` Creates and returns a copy of this object.
`boolean` | `equals(Object obj)` Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
`void` | `finalize()` Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object.
`final Class<?>` | `getClass()` Returns the runtime class of this `Object`.
`int` | `hashCode()` Returns a hash code value for the object.
`final void` | `notify()` Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor.
`final void` | `notifyAll()` Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.
`String` | `toString()` Returns a string representation of the object.
`final void` | `wait(long timeout, int nanos)` Causes the current thread to wait until another thread invokes the `notify()` method or the `notifyAll()` method for this object, or some other thread interrupts the current thread, or a certain amount of real time has elapsed.
`final void` | `wait(long timeout)` Causes the current thread to wait until either another thread invokes the `notify()` method or the `notifyAll()` method for this object, or a specified amount of time has elapsed.
`final void` | `wait()` Causes the current thread to wait until another thread invokes the `notify()` method or the `notifyAll()` method for this object.

## Public constructors

### URLDecoder

    public URLDecoder ()

## Public methods

### decode

    public static String decode (String s)

This method is deprecated.
The resulting string may vary depending on the platform's default encoding. Instead, use the decode(String,String) method to specify the encoding.

Decodes a `x-www-form-urlencoded` string. The platform's default encoding is used to determine what characters are represented by any consecutive sequences of the form "`%xy`".

Parameters
`s` | `String`: the `String` to decode

Returns
`String` | the newly decoded `String`

### decode

    public static String decode (String s,
                    String enc)

Decodes a `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` string using a specific encoding scheme. The supplied encoding is used to determine what characters are represented by any consecutive sequences of the form "`%xy`".

Note: The World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be used. Not doing so may introduce incompatibilities.

Parameters
`s` | `String`: the `String` to decode
`enc` | `String`: The name of a supported character encoding.

Returns
`String` | the newly decoded `String`

Throws
`UnsupportedEncodingException` | If character encoding needs to be consulted, but named character encoding is not supported

See also:

- `URLEncoder.encode(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)`

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